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The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1998

S.I. 1998/2907 · Made 19 November 1998

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LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 19th November 1998

Laid before Parliament 25th November 1998

Coming into force 4th January 1999

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 34 and 43 of the Legal Aid Act 1988f1, having had regard to the matters specified in section 34(9) and having consulted the General Council of the Bar and the Law Society, and with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1988 c. 34; sections 34 and 43 were amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), Schedule 18, paragraphs 60 and 63. Section 43 is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning given to “regulations”.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment to Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 4th January 1999.

2Amendment to Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989

In regulation 30(1) of the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989f1, after “criminal proceedings in a magistrates' court”, there shall be inserted “other than those referred to in regulation 3(1)(b) of the Costs Regulationsf2”.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

G. W. Hoon

Minister of State,

Lord Chancellor’s Department

Dated 17th November 1998

We consent

Clive Betts

Jim Dowd

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

Dated 19th November 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make an amendment to a reference, in regulation 30(1) of the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989, to the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (Costs) Regulations 1989. The amendment is consequential upon amendments made to the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (Costs) Regulations 1989 by the Legal Aid in Criminal and Care Proceedings (Costs) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1998.